Dancers Lost in 2021

A tribute to the lives of dancers who died in 2021.

Photo by Hulki Okay Tabak, Unsplash

January

10 — Ballerina Charlene Gehm MacDougal (born December 14, 1951) — danced lead roles with the Joffrey Ballet from 1976–1991, and on Broadway in a revival of West Side Story and the original Phantom of the Opera (1988).

13 — American-born contemporary dance choreographer Robert Cohan (born March 27, 1925) founded…